Rawkus Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 I live in Australia and my UK licence expires next year. My understanding is if I am not a UK resident I can't by law renew when it expires. If I move back to the UK in the future,can I get a new licence card without resitting the test? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisawright Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Yes you can. I went back after thirty years and all I had to do was fill out a form 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vickie78 Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 According to this site http://www.yourdrivinglicence.co.uk/what-happens-if-driving-licence-has-expired.html you can renew it for 20 pounds if in the UK, unless it has expired by more than 2 years then you may be required to sit a test again especially due to age or medical reasons if in the UK. If overseas and it expires well you can't renew it and it won't be valid anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawkus Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammygirl Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 8 hours ago, Vickie78 said: According to this site http://www.yourdrivinglicence.co.uk/what-happens-if-driving-licence-has-expired.html you can renew it for 20 pounds if in the UK, unless it has expired by more than 2 years then you may be required to sit a test again especially due to age or medical reasons if in the UK. If overseas and it expires well you can't renew it and it won't be valid anywhere. Yes but if you hold a valid Aus license they will just issue a UK one, same as we got an Aus licence by showing our UK one. If a licence has expired for a number of years and you have not held any licence from an ‘approved’ country then yes you may well need to sit a test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisawright Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 1 hour ago, rammygirl said: Yes but if you hold a valid Aus license they will just issue a UK one, same as we got an Aus licence by showing our UK one. If a licence has expired for a number of years and you have not held any licence from an ‘approved’ country then yes you may well need to sit a test. If you apply for a UK one based on your Australian one, they'll take your Australian one off you. For those settling permanently in the UK that may not matter, but worth being aware of. I was away for 30 years and I wasn't asked to do a test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vickie78 Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 13 hours ago, rammygirl said: Yes but if you hold a valid Aus license they will just issue a UK one, same as we got an Aus licence by showing our UK one. If a licence has expired for a number of years and you have not held any licence from an ‘approved’ country then yes you may well need to sit a test. Yes you are right, forgot to add that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawkus Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 Thankyou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franklin05 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Been back in the UK now for 2 just over two months and I have just renewed my UK licence, it expired a few years ago. I had to renew by post as I'd also had a name change, but it was pretty easy and I just sent a letter explaining that I'd been living overseas for X number of years. No issues at all and I had both my new licence back within a week. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballaratburd Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Sorry to hijack an old thread, but we have recently returned to the UK and I am looking to transfer my Australian driver's licence transferred back to a UK one. My UK licence expired a couple of years ago, however my Australian (Vic) licence is current. I had been under the impression that I could just get it transferred over, but on the DVLA website it says I need to have been resident in UK for 185 days before I can transfer it over. I really need a UK licence for work purposes and this could throw a spanner in the works. From the posts here, others seem to have just transferred it, I'm wondering if the rules have changed recently or if the fact I did have a UK licence previously means I don't need ot have been resident to renew it. Any help from someone who has done it recently would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliQ Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 25 minutes ago, Ballaratburd said: Sorry to hijack an old thread, but we have recently returned to the UK and I am looking to transfer my Australian driver's licence transferred back to a UK one. My UK licence expired a couple of years ago, however my Australian (Vic) licence is current. I had been under the impression that I could just get it transferred over, but on the DVLA website it says I need to have been resident in UK for 185 days before I can transfer it over. I really need a UK licence for work purposes and this could throw a spanner in the works. From the posts here, others seem to have just transferred it, I'm wondering if the rules have changed recently or if the fact I did have a UK licence previously means I don't need ot have been resident to renew it. Any help from someone who has done it recently would be appreciated. We no longer had our expired UK licence's (got discarded years ago when moving) so we completed an application form for new ones and ticked "lost or stolen" then explained that we had shredded them when they had expired and as we were abroad at that time, we no longer needed them. New ones were issued, with photo, within a week. And we did not have to hand in our Australian licence's either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloth Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 9 hours ago, Ballaratburd said: My UK licence expired a couple of years ago, however my Australian (Vic) licence is current. I had been under the impression that I could just get it transferred over, but on the DVLA website it says I need to have been resident in UK for 185 days before I can transfer it over. Just renew your expired UK licence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cup Final 1973 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Hi, does anyone know if there’ll be a problem renewing my expired UK licence as I’m over 70 and been in Oz 14 years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s713 Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 I just went to the post office, got a form, filled it in, said I had lost my old one, attached a photo and had a new license in a week. Easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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